Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eyebrow Pencil. She was interrogated for seven hours by the Redgraves and two other members of the W.R.P.'s central committee, who accused her of being a spy for the Special Branch (Britain's FBI). Corin added that she was "bourgeois, middle class and arrogant" besides. Gorst recalled that they made her empty her handbag and TV Producer Roy Battersby seemed particularly interested in her eyebrow pencil: "He kept peering down it as if he expected to discover a hidden microphone...
...your immortal soul, maaaaaan, if you have one, is words . . . Sooner or later you're all going to jail . . . All you'll have is language, the great conserver . . . Compose in your head. The time will come when you won't even be allowed a stub of pencil and the back of an envelope." There is perhaps too much doomsday in that advice, but anyone watching the world now may want to think hypothetically of stashing away in his survival kit, along with the dried foods and bottled water, a copy of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary...
...accounts, the clandestinidade (the clandestine life) was one of penury and privation, financial sacrifice and personal frustration, torture and sometimes death. Party members frequently worked at night, hiding messages under loose stones in the walls of village huts marked with a thin line of blue pencil. Copies of Avante, which was published at a series of underground presses, were delivered at night and left in trees and under doors or concealed in religious pamphlets. When money was needed for one purpose or another, members staged raffles and bazaars...
Beatty has also been stripped. His buoyant sensuousness and vulnerability have been sheared off, leaving only sullenness. Cast as the wrong kind of stud, he plays a priggish, humorless, overdressed dandy, with pencil-thin eyebrows and moustache, who acts like an eight-year-old. Nicholson plays a bratty little brother to him. Beatty seems too uncomfortable in this role to play it back. The emotional current that should sparkle between them never connects. Their obsessive bickering, which ought to reveal an underlying affection, is irritable rather than responsive and only makes them seem incompatible. They have no signals in common...
...textbooks and the mists of hagiology. The most elusive figure in that gentlemen's club of revolutionaries was Thomas Jefferson. Henry Adams wrote that every other American statesman could be portrayed with "a few broad strokes of the brush," but Jefferson "only touch by touch with a fine pencil, and the perfection of the likeness depended upon shifting and uncertain flickers of semitransparent shadows." Many biographers have attempted to draw that chiaroscuro character, most recently Fawn Brodie in her Thomas Jefferson, an Intimate Biography. The result has been an overemphasis of the difficult side of his character: the spiky...